Juan Maria Bordaberry

Juan Maria Bordaberry Arocena (17 June 1928-17 July 2011) was President of Uruguay from 1 March 1972 to 12 June 1976 (succeeding Jorge Pacheco and preceding Alberto Demicheli). He was a Colorado Party of Uruguay member.

Biography
Juan Maria Bordaberry Arocena was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 17 June 1928, and he entered politics with the National Party of Uruguay and became a National senator before switching his allegiance to the Colorado Party of Uruguay in 1969. He served as Agriculture Minister from 1969 to 1971, and he went on to serve as President from 1972 to 1976. In 1973, he launched a self-coup by dissolving Congress, suspending the Constitution, and ruling by decree with the help of the military. In 1976, he proposed a corporatist constitution which provided for a permanent role for the military in the government, but the military feared his openly authoritarian leadership style and deposed him in 1976. He would be arrested for his crimes in 2006, and he died in 2011.